Peru hopes local miracle gets recognition under new pope

But the recent election of Pope Leo XIV, who for years served as a missionary in Peru, has rekindled hopes of official recognition -- and a shrine worthy of the Eucharistic miracle, the only one of its kind reported in the Andean country. Robert Prevost, who became the first US-born pontiff last week, spent more than two decades in Peru. From 2015 to 2023, he was bishop of the diocese of Chiclayo, a city 15 kilometers (nine miles) from Eten on the northern coast. "With this pope who lived here in Chiclayo...